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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by ahelwer on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:52AM (#30115304)
A bit taken aback this still needs to be explained, but the point of having an account is so they can use your email address and phone number to correlate you & your actions across the entire internet to better surveil you & serve you behavior-modifying content.
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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by goodpoint on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:40AM (#30115964)
The "free" service is also there to hurt competition, establish market dominance and later or do all sort of bait-and-switch.

Reminder: by dominating a market a company removes options and better alternatives from the end users.

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